pkexec : patch for safe "--keep-user-env" option

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Sat Feb 27 15:29:36 UTC 2016




On Sat, Feb 27, 2016, at 07:01 AM, Jean-Philippe Guillemin wrote:
> Hi, Many X applications require root privileges, but at the same time
> want to keep the original $USER env variable

Isn't the more correct precedent for this the `SUDO_USER`
environment variable?

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